Former Embrace Chair and current Trustee Canon Anthony Ball has been appointed as an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Egypt.

Embrace joins church leaders and development agency directors in the US and the UK in calling on the UN security council to work for a permanent and lasting solution that will guarantee equality and human rights for all.

This week, from 4th-9th of May, is Deaf Awareness week. Embrace the Middle East works with both the Deaf Unit in Cairo and the Learning Centre for the Deaf in Beirut, Lebanon.

Pope Francis began his historic trip to Iraq on Friday (05.08.21). It was the first visit to be made by a Pontiff to Iraq, a region often labeled ‘the birthplace of the Eastern Church’.

According to the WHO World Report on Disability, 15 per cent of the world’s population, or more than 1 billion people, are living with disability. Many of those people live in the Middle East.

Embrace the Middle East were thrilled to see the bishop of Gloucester mention us in her International Women's Day speech

For a young woman in Egypt, wanting to learn karate is a pretty extraordinary ambition.